Edition 21: New Moon Total Solar Eclipse in Leo

june 11, 2026
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"Leo is the sign of the heart, of creative fire, of joy and self-expression. The South Node sits with this Eclipse, making it a healing chamber as much as a beginning. It gently illuminates every place we learned to dim ourselves to fit, to perform rather than simply be, to seek admiration when what we longed for was genuine connection."

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You were never asking for too much.
 

You were a flower being taught that blooming is vain. A bird being told that singing is attention-seeking. The Sun itself being asked to shine a little less.
 

This Eclipse is the correction.

🌑 The new Moon & solar eclipse in leo

The New Moon Total Solar Eclipse in Leo opens the new eclipse season on Thursday 13 August at 3:37 am AEST. This is a portal, a genuine turning point that redirects us onto entirely new timelines.
 

Leo is the sign of the heart, of creative fire, of joy and self-expression. The South Node sits with this Eclipse, making it a healing chamber as much as a beginning. It gently illuminates every place we learned to dim ourselves to fit, to perform rather than simply be, to seek admiration when what we longed for was genuine connection.
 

Mercury conjunct Jupiter in Leo expands everything, reaching out to Venus, Uranus and Neptune. This is courage amplified. Creative possibility at its most generous. A reminder that to shine is not to take from others. It adds to the light.


Eclipse energy arrives as a lightning bolt and continues to unfold over weeks and months. You do not need to feel it all immediately. Plant a seed this week. Trust the unfolding.
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Universal Thread

Joy and creative expression as sacred acts are recognised across every tradition.
 

In Yoruba cosmology, Oshun, the goddess of love, sweetness and the river, is understood as the vital force of creative abundance and pleasure. Her devotees honour her through music, dance and beauty, not as indulgence but as prayer.
 

In Hindu tradition, Lila, divine play, holds that creation itself is an expression of joy. The cosmos was not made out of necessity. It was made as an act of creative delight. To play, to create, to express is to participate in that same force.
 

The Sufi poet Hafiz writes: "Even after all this time the Sun never says to the Earth, you owe me. Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky." This is the Leo eclipse in a single image.
 

And in the wisdom of the world's contemplative traditions, from Tibetan Buddhist teaching on Buddha nature to the Christian mystics writing about the inner divine light, the recognition is the same: your essential nature is radiant. The work is not to create the light. It is to stop obscuring it.
 

Your aliveness is not vanity. It is sacred. It always has been.

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🔮 Energies to Work With

✦ Creative aliveness: the return to what genuinely lights you up, the spark that has always been yours
 

✦ Healing the wound of visibility: releasing the old story that to shine is to take up too much space
 

✦ Joy as practice: choosing delight, play and beauty as genuine daily acts of presence and nourishment
 

✦ Expansive beginning: Mercury conjunct Jupiter opening new pathways in communication, creativity and possibility
 

✦ Belonging without disappearance: the Eclipse opening an eighteen-month chapter of standing fully as yourself within community
 

Your joy is not frivolous. It is the signal that you are home.
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Ritual Practice: Returning to the Flame

This ritual can take five minutes or an hour. It does not require a dedicated space or any special preparation. It simply requires your presence.

 

1. One Conscious Breath
Wherever you are right now: inhale slowly. On the exhale, let your shoulders drop. This is enough to begin.

 

2. The Cacao Moment
Prepare your cacao slowly. While it warms, hold one question lightly: what genuinely brings me joy? Not what you think should. What actually does. Let the answer arrive without judgement.

 

3. The Joy Inventory (5 minutes)
Write, or simply sit and think through:

  • One thing that used to light me up that I have quietly let go of.
  • One small way I dimmed myself recently to fit in or avoid attention.
  • One creative act, however small, I could say yes to this week.

No essay required. One honest line for each is enough.

 

4. The Presence Practice
Take your cacao somewhere you can see natural light, even briefly. Stand or sit in it for one minute. Feel the warmth on your skin. This is not metaphor. The Sun, which this Solar Eclipse amplifies, literally nourishes the body. Let it.

 

5. Seal with Edible Alchemy
✦ Tsokolate Lover infused with rose, red maca and shatavari to restore the life force and embodied aliveness this Eclipse is calling home
 

✦ Love Chocolate infused with rose and schisandra to open the Heart Chakra and support the self-love that genuine creative expression always flows from
 

✦ Power Chocolate infused with turmeric, Siberian ginseng and cinnamon to ignite the Solar Plexus with the confidence and inner fire of Mercury conjunct Jupiter in Leo
 

Sip your Lover slowly. Let the chocolates be a genuine moment of sensory pleasure. This is the practice.
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Edible Alchemy for the new moon & solar eclipse

✦ Tsokolate Lover is the body-level answer to this Eclipse's invitation: return to your aliveness. Rose and shatavari are herbs of the heart and the vital feminine, restoring what depletion and self-dimming quietly take.
 

✦ Love Chocolate places the Heart Chakra at the centre, which is exactly where Leo lives. Rose soothes old hurt. Schisandra builds the emotional resilience to remain open and visible.
 

✦ Power Chocolate fuels the Solar Plexus courage of Mercury conjunct Jupiter. Turmeric addresses the inflammation that years of self-contraction create. Siberian ginseng sustains the energy needed to begin something genuinely new. Cinnamon sparks the inner fire.

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Closing Reflection

You do not need to become someone new under this Eclipse. You need to become more fully who you already are.
 

Plant one seed this week. A creative act. A moment of genuine joy. A conversation you have been holding back. Something that makes you feel, for even a moment, like yourself.
 

That is the beginning. That is always the beginning.

Your Ritual Awaits.

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